Football Films

On
September 19, 1941, a football team from Kiev including former players
of Dynamo Kiev won a match against a team of the German Wehrmacht. As
several players were arrested and executed shortly after the match, it
became known as the „death match“ in the legends of many countries
occupied by Nazi Germany, comparable to the „miracle of Bern“.

The title refers to a Georgian film comedy from the
1970s in which
British engineers at the beginning of the last century are importing
football into Georgia. A nice example of the very early globalization
of a sport before its global presence in the mass media which can be
dated precisely: to the World Cup in England in 1966 which happened to
be the first live transmission of a football competition.